'Sundays' and 'Anatomy of an instant' triumph at the Forqué Awards

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa's new film, 'Los Domingos', wins the award for Best Fiction Feature Film, while the latest creation by Rafael Cobos, Fran Araújo and Alberto Rodríguez, 'Anatomía de un Instant' achieves recognition for Best Fiction Series in the thirty-first edition of the Forqué Awards.

To López Arnaiz's victory is added, in the acting categories for feature films, that of Jose Ramon Soroiz as Best Male Performance in Maspalomas, while Javier Cámara has won his third Forqué with the Best Male Performance in a Series for Jakarta y Esperanza Pedreño has won the award for Best Female Performance in a Series for Little Faith T2.

The great celebration of Spanish audiovisual talent, organized by EGEDA, was held this weekend at the IFEMA Madrid Municipal Palace, from where Cayetana Guillén Cuervo and Daniel Guzmán, with the help of a third virtual presenter, TIA, the Forqué's AI, hosted a gala broadcast on TVE's La 2 and RTVE Play in which there was no shortage of memory for the interpreter Héctor Alterio, died this Saturday. The best audiovisual talent of the season came together, surrounded by colleagues from the sector and to the rhythm of musical director Víctor Elías and six musical numbers with artists of all generations, to celebrate the high quality of the annual production and honor the outstanding producer Emma Lustres with the EGEDA Gold Medal.

It should be noted that Sundays, produced by Los Desencuentros Movie, Buena Pinta Media and Colosé Producciones, Sayaka Producciones, Encanta Films, Think Studio and Telefónica Audiovisual, was the only title of the night to win more than one Forqué. It presents a multifaceted story about the reaction of a family upon learning of the decision of one of its young members to become a cloistered nun, a story that Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (also awarded in the last edition with the Forqué for Best Fiction Series for To want) has described it as "a film that respects the viewer as an adult capable of drawing their own conclusions. That respect is a way of honoring critical thinking" in a society in which "reflecting and debating makes us more human and less obedient."

In the same way, Patricia Lopez Arnaiz, who already received this same award in 2021 for her performance in Ane, has remembered her fellow nominees, the performers with whom she shared filming making up “a wonderful cast” and the director for “shedding light on relationships and bonds, what happens to us and moves us, that great mystery that matters so much to us all” when raising her trophy for Best Female Performance.

In the same way, Anatomy of a moment, created by Rafael Cobos, Fran Araújo and Alberto Rodríguez and produced by Movistar Plus+ has won the award for Best Fiction Series with a historical return on the coup d'état of February 23 based on the novel by Javier Cercas, to whom the producer Jose Manuel Lorenzo He wanted to thank, adding to his gratitude the rest of the team, among whom are the interpreters Álvaro Morte, Eduard Fernández, Manolo Solo or David Lorente and the director Alberto Rodríguez, of whom he praised the vision that he had of the book and its translation to the screen to conclude with a dedication to young people "so that they understand with this series how difficult it has been to achieve the freedoms that we have today and how important it is to fight to have them."

Emma Lustres, Gold Medal

Emotion has invaded the stage during the collection of the EGEDA Gold Medal. Enrique Cerezo, president of the Management Entity, has presented this honorary recognition to Emma Lustres, co-founder of the independent Galician production company Vaca Films, to which such iconic works as Cell 211, One Hundred Years of Forgiveness, The Child, To Heaven o Who kills with iron, and one of the industry professionals most committed to the defense of producer rights from various institutions, whom he defined as “a dedicated producer” and who has highlighted “her defense of independent production and the rights of producers, her courage and her vision of the future.”

Excited, Emma Lustres began her speech “talking about the public, the people who watch us and our films and series, who change with our stories,” stories that for the producer “have the power to make us empathize with people who are different from us due to other skin colors, religions” and that give shape to “a cultural industry of great value if we are all there,” for which she considered necessary a commercial regulation that guarantees “that independent producers are there,” in a decentralized system that defends and in which he wanted to use his work in Galicia as an example. Excited, Lustres remembered her husband and co-founder of Vaca Films, Borja Pena, and, most especially, to her two children: "I haven't been there all the time, but I think I have, like many of you, made my profession and my company compatible with the most beautiful thing I have in the world, which is being a mother," she concluded to ensure that "those letters that my children write to me saying 'my mother is very hard-working' there is no Oscar that can match it."

Tribute to Antonio Flores

The Forqué Awards have brought a flood of audiovisual talent to the stages of the IFEMA Madrid Municipal Palace, awarding the award for Best Documentary to Flowers for Antonio (Isaki Lacuesta and Elena Molina, Flowers for Antonio The Movie; Flower Power Producciones; Lacoproductora; Caballo Films), a posthumous tribute to the legendary musician Antonio Flores by his family and close ones. Alba Flores, actress and daughter of the singer-songwriter, was in charge of excitedly lifting the statuette: "Thanks to my family, Isaki and Elena. This is an award given by the producers. It takes a lot of courage to accompany a project like this, which is family-oriented, and a catharsis for my family and myself," she declared emotionally.

In addition, Belén (Dolores Fonzi, K&S Films; Amazon MGM Studios) se coronó como Película Latinoamericana del Año presentando un relato con la penalización del aborto en la Argentina como eje central de la trama. El segundo metraje dirigido por Fonzi, a la sazón intérprete con un Premio Platino por su papel en Paulina, continúa la oleada de éxito cosechada por Blondi, su ópera prima, que ya cosechó tres nominaciones a los Platino.

The award for Best Animated Feature Film went to Decorated (Alberto Vázquez, María y Arnold; Abano Produciones; Uniko Estudio Creativo; The Glow Animation; Sardinha em Lata Unipessoal), which narrates the journey of a middle-aged mouse trapped in an existential crisis, while the Film and Education in Values ​​Award was obtained by Deaf (Eva Libertad, Distinto Films; Nexus Creafilms; A Contracorriente Films; Diverso Films) a film that presents the difficulties that a deaf mother must face in caring for her son and whose leading role is played by Miriam Garlo in the company of Álvaro Cervantes. Its director, Eva Libertad, wanted to highlight “the dedication, generosity and care in all the work”, as well as remembering how the short film that originally gave rise to this film managed to get a group of prisoners to request sign language courses to communicate with their deaf companions.

The captive (Alejandro Amenábar, Himenoptero; Mod Producciones; Misent Producciones; Propaganda Italia), Alejandro Amenábar's new film won the Audience Award, thanks to the participation of Cinesa, giving a new dimension to Miguel de Cervantes' stay in prison in Algiers during his youth.

He short film was present with the award for Best Cinematographic Short Film for Dead Angle (Cristian Beteta, La Dalia Films; Robot Productions), where an ex-couple meets to investigate an attack on their common son starring Eva Llorach and Carlos Santos.